The pope has moral authority over 1.4 billion Catholics. But experts say he may not change their minds on political issues.

David French: I’m David French. I’m an Opinion columnist at The Times, where I write about law, politics and religion. I’m ...

The body of Pope Francis has been moved to St Peter's Basilica, where tens of thousands of mourners will queue to file past ...

The early church believed that after his death Christ descended into hell in order to rescue the souls of the righteous.

The crucifixion of Christ is one of the most famous stories in the Bible but author Julian Doyle has questioned much of what ...

New data shows rising numbers of young adults are identifying as religious—a turn that runs counter to decades of declining ...

“Christian texts mention that the moon turned to blood after Jesus’s crucifixion — potentially referring to a lunar eclipse, ...

Jonathan Cheek, a nuclear plant worker, converts to Catholicism and creates a YouTube series to educate others on the faith.

In Christianity, the donkey becomes almost a symbol of Jesus Christ himself, given how it patiently suffers and bears others’ ...

(OSV News) – From the silent era through the mid-1960s, Bible-based films constituted a reliable staple of Hollywood’s output. Directors both famous and obscure mined the Scriptures for stories they ...

It came into Latin as Israel, and that was also used in English where the spelling of Israel is found in the John Wycliffe translation of 1382 ... noun ‘Israel’ is used over 2,000 times in the Bible.

In the Bible, it becomes, by extension ... which explains its presence as protection in many pagan rituals. In the Catholic tradition, until before Vatican II, baptismal water was systematically ...